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[Machocruz]

Fudging around with Zomb's Megabezel shaders and Retroarch's AI translation features to derp through nippon Master of Magic

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The screens at that link are nice. One of the best CRT shaders I've seen

 

[Eisen]

Didn't know that Master Of Magic released for the Playstation

 

[janior]

some psx d00t

 

[e-mailio estevez]

Fudging around with Zomb's Megabezel shaders and Retroarch's AI translation features to derp through nippon Master of Magic

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The screens at that link are nice. One of the best CRT shaders I've seen

I tend to go for the Megabezel branches just because they roll a combination of so many different shaders together that there's a lot to play with. I don't care about the glass reflection stuff so much although it is admittedly kinda neat. I do like this package so far and it has options for a variety of different resolutions. The combination of signal noise and everything makes things look pretty nice IMO, it's noticeable with skyboxes and clouds:

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Didn't know that Master Of Magic released for the Playstation

It's been a pretty faithful port so far. Mechanically it's completely sound- all of the cheesy builds from Runemaster/Artificer to Invulnerable Guardians work just as the original. There are problems here and there such as Windwalking being broken- I hired Jaer on like turn 20 of one of my games only to find that units he's grouped with don't share his movement speed like they're supposed to. Having him so early is like winning the lottery so that stunk.

The spellbook is such a smattering of moon runes, and spell descriptions pull up in a trasparent window- running the AI parser against the spellbook will shit out a bunch of gibberish most of the time. Luckily the UI is largely the same as PC- spell selection and pick selection are ordered exactly the same as on the wiki- and normally you can sus out which spell is which based on its location in the UI or spell / upkeep cost, etc. It helps if you've been playing it on and off for decades.

Overall perfectly playable if you turn the music off (otherwise the load times are unbearable) and jump through some hoops. I didn't find using a controller to be that much of an impediment. But outside of the curiosity factor and visual changes there's no reason to play it over the original. Some characters got glow-ups, others not so much. They made Sharee look like Corey in the House and gave her a bra, Horus looks like slightly less of a douchebag and poor Torin looks like some kind of alien that hatched from an egg on mars:

 

[Great Deceiver]

Fudging around with Zomb's Megabezel shaders

Did you manage to get the full bezels to work (i.e. fill the horizontal gaps)? That wood paneling that you can slightly see on your screenshots is supposed to extend to the edges of the screen. I can't seem to. Not that I like bezels, but I'd like to test them.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

Fudging around with Zomb's Megabezel shaders

Did you manage to get the full bezels to work (i.e. fill the horizontal gaps)? That wood paneling that you can slightly see on your screenshots is supposed to extend to the edges of the screen. I can't seem to. Not that I like bezels, but I'd like to test them.

Just the opposite- the previous SNES bezel I was using was actually overlapping the screen, so whenever there was a black backround you'd see a faint bezel instead and it was super distracting. I ended up tracking down the the image file and just modifying it eventually. The woodpanel is less obtrusive so I haven't had to go to those measures. I combed through probably every setting of that shader and couldn't find a way to adjust it, though.

Generally all these shaders end up looking a lot worse if you force fullscreen, IMO, so there's going to be empty space. I tend to use the 'snes-metroid-integer' overlay as it's nice and neutral with like 50% opacity. Unfortunately I think you have to resize an overlays dimensions on a per-core basis and I'm too lazy futz with that.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Fudging around with Zomb's Megabezel shaders

Did you manage to get the full bezels to work (i.e. fill the horizontal gaps)? That wood paneling that you can slightly see on your screenshots is supposed to extend to the edges of the screen. I can't seem to. Not that I like bezels, but I'd like to test them.

Just the opposite- the previous SNES bezel I was using was actually overlapping the screen, so whenever there was a black backround you'd see a faint bezel instead and it was super distracting. I ended up tracking down the the image file and just modifying it eventually. The woodpanel is less obtrusive so I haven't had to go to those measures. I combed through probably every setting of that shader and couldn't find a way to adjust it, though.

Generally all these shaders end up looking a lot worse if you force fullscreen, IMO, so there's going to be empty space. I tend to use the 'snes-metroid-integer' overlay as it's nice and neutral with like 50% opacity. Unfortunately I think you have to resize an overlays dimensions on a per-core basis and I'm too lazy futz with that.

Changing aspect ratio to Full made the bezels work. I use 'core provided' normally. This guy did a lot of work (esp. for the 4k versions) and his base shader was CRT-Guest-advanced, which is one of my favourites.

Which preset are you using?

I quite like the 'hi-res' versions with Dreamcast running at native 640x480:

 

[Cyberarmy]

I thought this was some kind of Starcraft marine first...

 

[HansDampf]

Törööö!

shrooms

 

[Machocruz]

I tend to go for the Megabezel branches just because they roll a combination of so many different shaders together that there's a lot to play with. I don't care about the glass reflection stuff so much although it is admittedly kinda neat. I do like this package so far and it has options for a variety of different resolutions. The combination of signal noise and everything makes things look pretty nice IMO, it's noticeable with skyboxes and clouds:

Got the pack and tried some of the presets on Seiken Densetsu 3, but unfortunately it took my fps down to 19. I am on an ~8 year old gaming laptop though. I think some people would balk at the heavily processed look but it looks cool to me. Keep in mind this is my first time using bezel shaders.

 

[JarlFrank]

Oh hey what a cute looking frog!
It farts black gas at me. I die.

Thank you Elden Ring, very cool

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[Hellraiser]

Finished Vince's masterpiece, enjoyed it very much . Some random screenshots.

Very progressive VD.

cleveology reference. Also hillarious but very justified in-universe second dialog choice.

Ol' Bub got whacked.

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

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Oh hey what a cute looking frog!
It farts black gas at me. I die.

Thank you Elden Ring, very cool

If you had played Dark Souls, you would have recognized From Software's version of basilisks and known to keep your distance:

 

[JarlFrank]

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Oh hey what a cute looking frog!
It farts black gas at me. I die.

Thank you Elden Ring, very cool

If you had played Dark Souls, you would have recognized From Software's version of basilisks and known to keep your distance:

Still looks cute!

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[JarlFrank]

Why do so many of this game's enemies look so cute?

 

[Abu Antar]

The below screen looks slightly better.

 

[FreshCorpse]

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Hakuna Matata!

 

[RoBoBOBR]

Spoiler

 

[JarlFrank]

I wish people would name the game if it's not immediately obvious where the screenshot is from, especially when posting shots from a selection of different games.

 

[RoBoBOBR]

JarlFrank it's BG3

 

[Abu Antar]

Mine were Colony Ship, and Nox Archaist. I usually don't think about naming the games.